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The FLOSS BLOG

Thursday, November 15, 2007 6:56:25 PM

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So I just got an idea recently on getting in this web 2.0 waggon about making a web floss platform. A social network devoted to floss and linux desktop user. ThE platform will bridge to your gnome or kde desktop and enable them to the networkability of a social network.

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Screencasting on FLOSS

Wednesday, August 8, 2007 7:28:23 AM

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Recently I learned about screencasting on the http://www.slideshare.net site. This is a cool technology and idea. This got me so excited that I want to create an openoffice.org presentations. Please join this OOo group.

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Missing a fallen soldier

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:09:30 PM

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Today I woke up to the news that a member of the OpenOffice.org community, Gerry Roderick Singleton passed away from a heart stroke on May 12th. The shocking part for me at least, was that I got his Linkedin invitation that same day.
The email from Charles Schultz:

Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:13:47 +0200
From: Charles-H. SCHULZ <charles-h.schulz@laposte.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Subject: Gerry Singleton passed away

Apologies for cross-posting.
Gerry Singleton, our documentation project co-lead
(http://documentation.openoffice.org), just passed away from a sudden
heart attack.
More information on the dev@documentation lists. It’s a very sad day for
OpenOffice.org as we lost an invaluable volunteer; Gerry was one of our
oldest contributors and although I’ve never met him physically, I felt
that he was a friendly and warm presence in our Noosphere. My thoughts
go to his family and his friends.

May he rest in peace. Goodbye Gerry, see you one of these days up there.

Charles-H. Schulz.


After that I followed to verify he was the same person, in shock I discovered that he was the same person. I most say that I didn’t have a strong link to him since he worked in a different project.

His project was the documentation project at http://documentation.openoffice.org. The documentation recently was reinventing itself with the help of OOoAuthors.

I was so interested that I went on to view his linkedin which gave me links to his blogs and his website. I discover that he is also involved in other FLOSS groups like CLUE in Canada which is a group to enforce open source in the Canadian government. He also was an independent consultant owning his own firm PATH tech.

At a senior stage age, he seemed very modern and Web 2.0′ish. On a note at CLUE I also discover he was into Drupal. His friend Evan made a post that describe him earlier that day where they went to DrupalCon in Toronto.

I spent some time at his comany site where he also had some pictures from his family. It seems his family is already on a third generation of off-springs and he was full of new grandkids. All in all even thoght I never met him I could picture him as a happy exciting geek that geekout till the last day.

I am happy of seen that he lived a full and plenty life and he really went all the way till the last day about changing the world and making it more open.

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The OOo Extension Repository

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:08:49 PM

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The Extension Project has skyrocked with the development of extensions for the OpenOffice.org Suite. The Extension repository mainly done on OOoBasic and Python.
* BorderLiner
Localized : English - Category : Tables - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 2.02
Description : An Openoffice.org macro to draw borders in Calc and Writer tables and other objects just with a couple of key strokes

* History Manager
Localized : ?? - Category : ?? - License : ?? - OOoVersion : ??
Description :

* LanguageTool
Localized : English, German, Polish, Dutch, Latvian - Category : Linguistic - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 2.x
Description : Grammar and style checker for English, German, Polish, and Dutch. Initial support for Italian, French, and Spanish. Latvian in preparation.

* Multipages
Localized : English, German - Category : UI tool - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 1.1, 2.0, 2.1
Description : An Openoffice.org macro (extension package) to copy, delete, sort, rename and create multiple document pages automatically


* OOOBlogger
Localized : English - Category : Writer Tools - License : ?? - OOoVersion : ??
Description :

* Optimization Solver formerly known as ''LPSolver''
Localized : English - Category : Calc Tools - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 2.0
Description : The Linear and Non-Linear Optimization Solver (or simply the Optimization Solver) is designed to compute an optimized solution that either maximizes or minimizes a given objective of a model while, at the same time, satisfying a set of constraints that may be defined in the model.
In this wiki: Optimization Solver

* SVG Import Filter
Localized : ?? - Category : ?? - License : ?? - OOoVersion : ??
Description :

* Code Snippet Creator
Localized : ?? - Category : Development tool - License : ?? - OOoVersion : ??
Description :

* Multisave
Localized : ?? - Category : ?? - License : ?? - OOoVersion : ??
Description : A Macro to save a document to multiple format in a few clicks

* Annotation Tool
Localized : ?? - Category : ?? - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : ??
Description : Extension of the note feature in Writer: text highlighting, quick remove of notes

* Mathtype Macros
Localized : English - Category : Math tool - License : GPL - OOoVersion : 2.0.x - Platform : Windows
Description : Macros for insertion of Mathtype objects in OOo Writer on the Windows platform

* QuasiWiki
Localized : English - Category : Wiki - License : GPL - OOoVersion : 2.0.x
Description : QuasiWiki implements some of the basic principles of wiki in OpenOffice.org Writer. It doesn't turn OpenOffice.org into a fully fledged wiki tool (hence the "quasi" prefix), but rather adds some wiki-like capabilities.

* txt2tags extension
Localized : English - Category : Markup - License : GPL - OOoVersion : 2.0.x
Description : txt2tags extension allows users to apply txt2tags markup to the currently opened Writer document.

* OxygenOffice Professional contents for OpenOffice.org as extension
Localized : English, German, Hungarian, French, Italian - Category : Templates, Gallery - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 2.x
Description : Extension version of OxygenOffice Professional's extra contents for OpenOffice.org like templates and galleries.
Download : Direct link for extension downloads
Last update : February 14, 2007

* German template collection
Localized : German - Category : Templates - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 2.1
Description : a collection of German templates hosted by the Germanophone project

* LilyPond for OpenOffice.org
Localized : English - Category : Music - License : ? Version : 2.1 OOoLilyPond is a macro for OpenOffice.org that simplifies the integration of music notation in OpenOffice.org Writer of Impress. It can be used to write a book on music theory or to write down exercises for music instruments or voices which need to be commented with lots of text.

* Pagination
Localized : French, English - Category: Writer Add-On - License : LGPL - OOoVersion : 2.x
Description : A macro to simplify the commands to paginate a document. Brings up a dialog box where you can choose among some options (position, first number, etc.)

* Calendrier
Localized : French, English - Category : Writer Add-On - License: LGPL - OOoversion : 2.0.4
Description : A tool to create calendar pages for one month or for one year.

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GLO Talk

Saturday, December 2, 2006 8:12:29 AM

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2 Weeks ago I have a talk about OpenOffice.org and the way the community is constructed, the talk was kind of rushed but I think I did a good job. You can see the presentation http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/galeria/ooo/GLO_Presentacion.html. So here are some of the pictures I got from the talk:




You can see the rest in the album.

The talk was mainly written about the community, with the different projects and area that OpenOffice.org is divided. I basically divided the activities of the community into 4, from promotion, development, support and localization.

I also explain into how OOo is constructed, it's UNO API and also ways they can go to contribute and where the resources are out there.

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